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Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in conformity to the provisions of the act of fifteenth May, 1820, for the relief of the inhabitants of the village of Peoria, in the state of Illinois

by: Coles, Edward, 1786-1868; United States. Dept. of the Treasury; Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) ICIU

Publication date: 1821

Topics: Real property -- Illinois Peoria, Peoria (Ill). -- Claims against the United States

Publisher: Washington : Printed by order of the Senate of the U.S.

Collection: americana

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: English

Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1821, octavo, 39 pp., folding map, and two folding tables, removed from bound volume, foredge untrimmed, otherwise a very good clean copy. Presents the report of Edward Coles, Register of the Land Office at Edwardsville, on the disputed titles to lots in Peoria, these were claimed primarily by the French settlers, and Indian traders of this old settlement. The settlers had settled there without any grant or permission from the authority of any government; the only title was possession. The work contains the sworn testimony of numerous old French settlers, describing their history, etc.

American Imprints 7458, two locations.